english essay #3 annotated bibliography-interview
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Sarah BrownEnglish 1106Nicole WilliamsApril 1, 2010
Annotated Bibliography/Interview
Research:
% Today, more than forty-seven million Americans have no health
care insurance. A crucial issue that seems to have no positive outcome
in todays financial system.Facing the issue on how patients without
health insurance can be treated for emergency care; hospitals are now
making it mandatory for patients to get charged to their credit cards.
Ultimately lowering personal balances and leading to future
bankruptcy. With the anxiety for American patients who are or arent
insured paying for illegal immigrants; is not only lowering the
relationship and time with doctors, but having us compensate for their
illegal residency. Why should they be able to live the same life as
American citizens, if they dont have to pay the same equality for
health care insurance? According to the New York Times Four of every
ten physicians report that their patients have had problems with
coordination of their care in the last 12 months due to the number of
uninsured patients waiting for hospital care. Currently, more than
sixty percent of patients arent receiving the medical care they are
paying for. This is only sky rocketing each day! Regardless of whether
American citizens are insured, the United States continues to have
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high spending rates only becoming progressively worse with our
economy.
Together as One
Its a warm Thursday night, as I decide to head over to
Montgomery Regional Hospital to find possible patients to interview
what they think of the new health care bill along with the policies in
the medical care insurance. Its a little more chaotic than usual as I
notice there are more people surrounding the front desk where
Kimberly sits cumbersome. Different groups wait, causing commotion
over the ledge of the desk. With her hand in one ear and the telephone
placed against the other, she turns her back patiently trying to listen to
the call on the other line while drowning out the intolerant and ill-
mannered customers waiting on the other. I observe that there are
different people trying to capture her attention while her back is
turned. The first is a mother and her young daughter, about ten
shaking papers over the ledge stating, My daughter is in pre existing
conditions, why wont my insurance cover this? While next to her four
young Mexican men gossip in another language, looking at their credit
cards with confusion and disbelief. On the side tolerantly hunched
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over, leans an older gentleman with large spectacles and his wife
sitting beside him in a wheelchair. He appears to be in his late
sixties/early seventies. He whispers to his wife wondering how his
retirement is going to make up for his medical tests and prescriptions
hes been going through the past month. As Kimberley hangs up she
asks the cluster of patients who needs assistant first. All three groups
look at one another in silence and take a step back, allowing the older
man to seek for assistance first. He steps forward, gripping onto the
border of wood nailed to the wall, with a pipe hanging out of his plaid
fleece jacket pocket. In a raspy voice he tells Kimberly that he needs
his prescriptions to be passed at the pharmacy, to be able to function
throughout the days. I can see sadness in Kimberlys eyes feeling
sorrow for the old man. She phones Dr. G and informs the older
gentleman that he will be personally directed through a precise system
to assist him of any medical needs or concerns he has.
Next in line the four Mexican men step up and accidently speak
to Kimberly in a different lingo, catching himself halfway in the first
sentence. With a kind and sweet accent the man tells Kimberly I have
just come to the States six months ago, this is my first visit to a health
facility. This being a tough situation for Kimberly to take care of
herself; she pages Samantha H. head nurse and hand for international
patients. Once Samantha arrives and understands the circumstances
she tells the men Depending on how the medical services you need, I
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cant immediately assist you, before other patients who have been
waiting their turn. Although today illegalized citizens are perceived as
one of two things: nationalists (people having no right to have benefits
as an illegal citizen) or humanists (seeing that they can have
admission to health care.) The men look at her still confused,
misunderstanding what she is saying and show her their credit cards
pointing. Samantha apologizes Youre so patient Kim. I honestly dont
know what wed do without you here, since the staff has been so
limited. The men are soon directed back to their seating, where they
have to wait with the rest of the patients before them. According to
Center for Immigration Studies There are 14.5 million immigrants and
their U.S.-born children (under 18) who lack health insurance. They
account for 31.9 percent of the entire uninsured population.
Immigrants and their children are 16.8 percent of the nations total
population. Learning about these new informative statistics and the
possible new health care bill; our government is still trying to figure out
whether we are reliable to pay for other illegal immigrants as a nation
or let them fend for themselves and be a true U.S citizen?
As time passed and the night went on, I noticed that the number
of nurses that has been there earlier was even smaller than the
previous hour. Kimberly tells me that there is a shortage of nurses on
all the shifts, requiring her to work overtime while others go home to
their families. Being young, and still not married I dont mind so much
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the extra work time; but Im worried that the hospital may get too
comfortable having me and some of the other nurses working over
time; instead of hiring. Kimberly is just as concerned as any another
person would be. With the concern of Medicated, the New Health Care
Bill trying to be passed, how senior citizens are going to be able to pay
for their needed remedy, and how illegal immigrants are going to be
able to get away with paying no medical care. These are all questions
concerned Americans wait, parallel to patients in the waiting room of
the Montgomery Regional Hospital.
Bibliography:
"AACN - Media - Nursing Shortage Resource." Welcome to AACN.
Web. 01 Apr. 2010. Website.
This site helped provide information about the licensing of nurses
and how the economy is being impacted due to these shortages.
This site also touches a little on facts from the Association of
Academic Health Center and how shortages of nurses is crucial in
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threatening the nations health occupation, and learning
communications.
"Global Major Medical Insurance for Immigrants (H1b, H4, L1, L2, B1,
B2, Etc..) and Foreign Nationals." Visitors Medical Insurance and
International Travel Health Insurance. Web. 02 Apr. 2010. Website.
In this source, I was able to learn about the difference between citizens
who study abroad in the United States and are offered specific
medical insurance versus citizens who want to remain permanent,
without legalizing themselves and paying the costs.
"Immigrants & Health Care." NILC Home. Web. 02 Apr. 2010. Website.
This source was constructive because it touched on three significant
points: new medical technology, costs of medical care, and why health
care is being spent so rapidly for American civilians; and how Medicare
is affecting seniors.
"New Healthcare Bill Pros and Cons: It Expands Benefits Now, Cuts
Them Later /." The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com. Web. 01
Apr. 2010. Website.
This website helped assist me in understanding how the government
works with federal spending on health care and federal tax subsidies
for health care; giving me further insight on the pros and cons of the
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new health care bill.
"Nursing Shortages: A Growing Concern."Almanac of Policy Issues.
Web. 02 Apr. 2010. Website.
I havent used this website in my paper too much yet, but it will be
effective in my fourth essay; when I discuss the shortage of nurses on
staff. As well as the recent surge in nurse employment: health affairs.
"Pros, Cons, and Misconceptions About the National Health Care Bill."
EziSubmission - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive
Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints. 01 Apr. 2010.
Print.
On this site, it assists me in the different pros and cons about medical
care coverage. This helped me with my paper, by understanding the
difference in insurance offered to illegal immigrants versus legalized
citizens.
Right to Health Care ProCon.org. Web. 01 Apr. 2010. Website.
Reading this article, gave me insight whether all Americans should
have the right to health care, being the largest industry employing
more than fourteen million people nationwide; as well as U.S. health
spending versus our economy.
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"Rising Health Care Costs Put Focus on Illegal Immigrants -
USATODAY.com." News, Travel, Weather, Entertainment, Sports,
Technology, U.S. & World - USATODAY.com. Web. 02 Apr. 2010.
Website.
In this source, I was able to understand the cost of health care and how
the increase of illegal immigrants are impacting our relationships/ care
with our doctors/physicians. It also had me recognize the intense
argument with immigrants being deported because they are unable to
understand the payment of insurance and medical bills.